American Politics

While Christoph Cardinal Schönborn and Professor Stephen Barr were arguing over questions of evolution and teleology in…

“Never forget what happened here!” John Paul II demanded in 1993 when he visited Albania ” where,…

Even as history continues to unfold—and explode—in ancient Mesopotamia, the Iraq War has already proven itself the…

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Two of the most influential theologians of the last century, Karl Barth and Reinhold Niebuhr, shared the…

Steven Waldman is editor-in-chief of Beliefnet, and is working on a book on religion and the American…

So, protestors have filled the streets of France , once again. Cars burned, buildings occupied, politicians scuttling…

This is a very old genre of humor. The darndest things that children say have, I suppose,…

Euthanasia has been making a comeback in recent months, bubbling up again and again in little snippets…

Forty-five years ago John Courtney Murray, S.J., published his groundbreaking work We Hold These Truths, which he…

Near the end of Reproduction and Responsibility, the 2004 report of the President’s Council on Bioethics, comes…

Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805, traveled across the United States and some of Canada for…

An issue that is fast heating up and requires discerning moral judgment, although it will more likely…

Just now, as Islamic nations wrestle both with new theoretical ideas and new public policies concerning religious…

“Did the United States really have a beginning that can be called its “Founding”? Can any society,…